Global Fund workshop on community systems and responses for tuberculosis control in West and Central Africa
Communities are key players in the fight against tuberculosis. They are the closest interlocutors for patients. It is therefore particularly advisable to involve them more closely when making important decisions in the fight against tuberculosis. To take a step in this direction, the Global Fund organized a workshop on community systems and responses to tuberculosis […]
RKI project review meeting
The “Continuing through crises” project was set up by WHO/TDR and the Robert Koch Institute during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project, supported by the GHP program and the German Federal Ministry of Health, aims to help countries in West and Central Africa minimize the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis services, and provide them with the […]
7th annual meeting of national tuberculosis program coordinators
Since the creation of WARN-TB in March 2015, the WARN/CARN-TB network organises an annual consortium meeting, of national TB program coordinators, from the 27 countries of West and Central Africa. These meetings enable program managers to discuss tuberculosis-related challenges and work on the development of regional control strategies. It is in this context that the […]
Multisectoral approach to tuberculosis control in West and Central Africa: WHO Multisectoral Accountability Framework for TB / Public Private Partnership
The fight against tuberculosis is not just a matter for the Ministry of Health” is the message that WHO/AFRO has reminded the heads of national tuberculosis programmes in West and Central Africa. During the telephone meeting held on Thursday 29 July 2021 between WARN/CARN-TB member countries, attended by experts from WHO/TDR and WHO/GTB, discussions were […]
Innovative approaches to tuberculosis screening in COVID-19 time in West and Central Africa.
For several months now, maintaining tuberculosis services has been a particular challenge in most of the countries worst affected, particularly in West Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on patient attendance at tuberculosis treatment facilities. This has resulted, among other things, in a significant drop in the effectiveness of screening activities in […]
TDR and the University of McGill train West and Central African NTP researchers in the economic evaluation of health interventions
The rational use of available resources is a constant challenge in low-income countries. The health sector is no exception to this constraint. The decision to implement any health intervention must therefore take into account the additional economic burden it represents, but also and above all the relationship between this burden and the gain in efficiency […]
Module 4 of the WHO/TDR training course to build operational research capacity in Central African countries
TB research is one of the 3 pillars of the WHO strategy to end TB by 2030. In order to support this aspect of TB programme management in the West and Central African regions, WHO/TDR has initiated a series of training courses aimed at strengthening the operational research capacities of the national TB programmes (NTPs) […]
2021 Annual meeting of TB programme coordinators and Heads of Laboratory from West and Central African countries
In order to make an annual assessment of the successes, challenges and prospects of TB control in the West and Central African regions, the coordinators and Heads of Laboratory of the NTPs that are members of WARN/CARN-TB meet each year to discuss, among themselves and with partners, ways and means of strengthening the performance of […]
DRAF TB launches its follow-up program to the “Political Declaration of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB” in 12 French-speaking countries in Central and West Africa.
Two years after the political declaration by heads of state and government, made at the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis in September 2018, it is important to take stock of the progress made towards the resolutions made at that meeting. It is with this in mind that, with the support of Stop TB Partnership […]
New WHO recommendations on the programmatic management of TB Preventive Treatment
Tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) is one of the main interventions recommended by the WHO to achieve the objectives of the “Stop TB” strategy. Two years after the last recommendations were made, it was important for the WHO to provide an update, taking into account new evidence and the current level of knowledge about TPT. With […]